Hello!

> It may look weird, but do application really *need* to see eth0 rather
> than eth858354?

Applications do not care, humans do. :-)

What's about applications they just need to see exactly the same device
after migration. Not only name, but f.e. also its ifindex. If you do not
create a separate namespace for netdevices, you will inevitably end up
with some strange hack sort of VPIDs to translate (or to partition) ifindices
or to tell that "ping -I eth858354 xxx" is too coimplicated application
to survive migration.

Alexey
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